Submissions

Author Guidelines

RULES FOR CONTRIBUTORS OF «HISPANIA SACRA»

Download HERE the Good Practice Code in PDF
Download HERE the Authorship Form in PDF

1. Hispania Sacra publishes articles in Spanish, English, French, Italian and Portuguese, referring to one's own research interest in religious history in Spain or the Hispanic world. The journal does not publish documentary appendices: they will only be admitted in justified and very exceptional cases.
2. The originals sent must be unpublished and they will have an extension between 6,000 and 12,000 words. They should be preceded by a sheet bearing the title in English and Spanish, the author's name, institution to which he/she belongs, academic status, postal and email addresses, and telephone, as well as his ORCID identifier. In the second sheet it must appear again the title in Spanish and English, the author’s name, institutional affiliation, an abstract about 80-150 words in Spanish and English, along with keywords also in Spanish and English, followed by the text. The originals may be sent only in a Microsoft Wod file through the journal's webpage. Images and illustrations should be in separate file, with enough resolution (300 dpi in TIFF or JPG format), indicating their placement in the article. All artwork shall be sent in a single ZIP or RAR compressed file. The authors are responsible for the possible copyright associated with the images. The texts must be adapted to the «Good Practice Code» available on the journal website: hispaniasacra.revistas.csic.es. The authors must complete and sign the «Statement of authorship, good practices and transfer of rights», wich is available too in the same website. The articles must mention the sources of funding, when they have received them.
3. This journal applies the CRediT taxonomy for identifying authorship contributions based on the assignment of specific roles to research articles. For more information see "Submissions/Authorship identification". This information should be incorporated into the document, under the heading "Authorship contribution statement", located just before the bibliography, in the following format:
   Authorship contribution statement
   Name and Surname author 01: Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing.
   Name and Surname author 02: Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing–review & editing.
4. Proposals of monographs may be submitted, which will be evaluated by the Editorial Board. Proposals should be sent by the possible coordinator of the fascicle. They should include the title of the monograph, an explanatory report of up to 3,000 characters and an index of articles (between 5-10) and authors, including the institutional affiliation of each of them. The deadlines for sending the articles should be adjusted to the editorial needs of the journal. The Journal will only communicate with the coordinator of the fascicle. He/she will then be in charge of contacting the authors with any information regarding the articles’ evaluations. The coordinator shall take on responsibility to ensure that all the articles comply to the guidelines of the journal, that deadlines are met and that authors introduce any suggestions included in the evaluation reports.
5. Book reviews may be requested, for which two copies must be sent to the editor of the journal. Likewise, already prepared reviews will be accepted, although the Editorial Board reserves the right to publish them or to request modifications prior to publication. Book reviews are intended as a critical and academic comment, not a mere summary or praise. They will have a maximum length of 2.000 words and will not have footnotes.
6. The ‘Chicago author-date’ citation system will be used in the text, indicating the last name of the cited author followed by the year and of the pages, for example: “(Bataillon 2009, 31-33)”, or “... as Marcel Bataillon (2009, 31-33) indicates”. Do not use expressions such as idem, ibidem or op. cit.. The number of the note must be placed after the punctuation mark, for example: .¹
7. The bibliography cited will be at the end of the article, with the number of pages only if a journal or a collective work, and repeating the author's name if you cite several works by the same. Both the bibliographic citations of the body of the text and the final bibliographic list should follow the following examples:
   
   How to cite in the text body, whether it be a book, book chapter or journal article:
   
   Fernández Conde 2016.
   Pavón Benito 2018, 437-439.
   
   How to cite in the bibliography:
   
   Journal Article:

   Pavón Benito, Julia. 2018. "El cartulario del Temple de la encomienda de Novillas (siglo XIII). Cuestiones sobre la primera andadura de la Orden en Navarra." Hispania Sacra LXX, 142: 433-443.
   
   Vergara Ciordia, Javier, and Beatriz Comella-Gutiérrez. 2017. "La censura pedagógica de la Compañía de Jesús en la Edad Moderna a través de su reglamentación jurídica." Hispania Sacra LXIX, 140: 545-566.

   Books and chapters or parts of an edited book:

   Ramírez Méndez, Jessica. 2015. Los carmelitas descalzos en la Nueva España. Del activismo misional al apostolado urbano, 1585-1614. México: Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia.
   
   Domínguez Sánchez, Santiago. 2015. Documentos pontificios relativos al mecenazgo papal del primer arte gótico hispano (1198-1314). Monumenta Hispania Pontificia, 9. León: Universidad de León.
   
   Fernández Gallardo, Luis. 2018. "Usos propagandísticos de la devoción jacobea: la transferencia de los atributos guerreros de Santiago". In El culto jacobeo y la peregrinación a Santiago a finales de la Edad Media, edited by Santiago Gutiérrez García, and Santiago López Martínez-Morás, 31-48. Santiago de Compostela: Universidad de Santiago de Compostela.

   Citing electronic documents:
   
   All electronic documents with a DOI (Digital Object Identifier) must be cited using this locator to the detriment of their URL address. There is no need to indicate the date of consultation. Electronic documents that do not contain DOI will be cited preferably indicating a firm URL and optionally the date of consultation can be included in square brackets [retrieved: dd / mm / yyyy].
   
   How to use abbreviations in the text
   
   All abbreviations should be listed in the first numerical footnote, begining with the indication “Abbreviations used:”. The abbreviations should be presented as follows: the abbreviation, the sign = and its full form or equivalence; and be separated by semi colons. Full stops should always be removed from initials (AGS, no A.G.S.). Archive material should always be cited in Roman. Folios should always be abbreviated as f. / ff.
   
   
8. This journal uses the software iThenticate as tool for plagiarism detection. Once received the original text the Editorial Board will decide its acceptance or rejection. Once accepted, it will be reviewed by two external reviewers, whose suggestions were sent to the authors to make appropriate modifications, according to the criteria of scientific quality. The Editorial Board will be issuing the final decision in view of the evaluators’ reports. The evaluation method used is «double blind», maintaining the anonymity of both the author and reviewers. A list of external evaluators should be published every 3 years in the official website.
9. Authors will be informed of the dates on which the original has been received. In a period of approximately six months after being received, they will be informed about the complainant of the outcome of the evaluators' reports and whether it has been accepted or rejected article, and, if appropriate reforms, their acceptance or rejection and the number and volume that appears. Since 2024, this journal is published only in electronic version.

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

Below you will find instructions for the following procedures:

- How to register at Hispania Sacra

- How to send an original manuscript to Hispania Sacra

- How to check a revision report and submit a revised version of a manuscript

How to register at Hispania Sacra

1.- On the journal's website, click on the link "Register":

2.- On the registration page you will have to fill in all the fields (the "Family name" field is optional, although highly recommended) using lower case only for your email, username and password. After reading the Privacy Statement you will need to consent to the collection and storage of your data and complete the Captcha. Receiving notifications of new publications and notices is optional.

3.- You will receive a message with a link to activate your account at the provided email address. Once activated, you will be able to log in to your account with the credentials you created.

How to send an original manuscript to Hispania Sacra

1.- On the magazine's website, log in by clicking on "Login":

2.- Enter your username and password. Once you return to the magazine's homepage, click on the "Make a Submission" button:

Before submitting, please review the "Submission Preparation Checklist" and read the "Author Guidelines", the "Copyright Notice" and the "Privacy Statement". When you have all the required documents ready, click on the link "Make a new submission".

In subsequent logins, you will be taken to your user dashboard. There press the ‘New Submission’ button to submit a new article. You will be shown any articles received and in process under the ‘My Queue’ tab):

3.- As you will see on the new submissions page, submitting a manuscript is a four-stage process, in addition to a final section with information on follow-up:

3.1.- "1. Start"

At this stage you must select the language in which the article is written and the section of the journal in which you think it would fit, you must indicate that you have prepared all the items on the "Submission requirements" list and, optionally, you may send comments to the editor. You must comply with the terms of the Copyright Statement and the collection and storage of your data as the author of the article in accordance with the Privacy Statement of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC).

Then press the "Save and continue" button.

3.2.- "2. Upload submission"

In this phase, the files that make up the article and its additional documentation will be uploaded to the management module.

There are three parts to upload each file. In the first one, we will select which component of the article we are going to contribute and we will upload the corresponding file. Once uploaded, click on the "Continue" button. In the second part we will see the file metadata, with the possibility to edit them, but we will click "Continue" without making this edition.

In the third part, select "Add Another File", going back to "1. Upload file" and, without modifying the default option "This is not a revision of an existing file", select the new "Article Component" identifying what it is and uploading the file. Click "Continue" until you reach, once again, step "3. Confirm". This process must be repeated until all the files have been sent, and only when all the material has been uploaded should the "Complete" button be selected.

If after "Completing" the submission we realise that we have forgotten to upload a file, we can do so by selecting the "Upload File" button located in the upper right-hand corner of the "2. Upload Submission" tab:

Once all the submission files have been uploaded, we will press the "Save and continue" button.

3.3.- "3. Enter Metadata"

In this phase the author will enter the metadata of the article according to the journal guidelines. These are:

- Title in Spanish and English. If the article is written in another language, it will be introduced first this language and then in English.

- Summary or abstract in the same languages as the previous item.

- List of contributors. Although it was not necessary when registering as a journal user, in this section it is compulsory for authors to have their ORCID identifier and affiliation correctly indicated. If necessary, the information of additional authors will be added using the link "Add contributor":

- Keywords. The article keywords will be inserted in both languages. The entire list cannot be copied, must be entered one term at a time pressing "Enter" after each one.

- Funding data. The entities that have supported the research published in the article must be indicated. After selecting "Add funder", the name of the funder should be inserted again, which will trigger an internal search that will return the institution standardised name and DOI. If the institution does not have a DOI, it will not be able to register in this field. After entering the grant numbers, click on "Save".

To finish this phase of entering metadata, click on the "Save and continue" button.

3.4.- "4. Confirmation" y "5. Next steps"

In this last phase we will confirm the submission metadata recording linked to the uploaded files. Before clicking on the "Finish Submission" button, we can go back to the previous phases and review the information and files provided to check that they are all correct.

Once we click on the "Finish Submission" button, the article will be sent to the journal and its staff will contact you to continue with the process, as indicated in the "5. Next Steps" section.

How to check a revision report and submit a revised version of a manuscript

Once your submission has been reviewed, the journal's staff will send you a review report. Once received, you must log in to the journal and, in the "Submissions" section of your dashboard, you will be able to check that your submission is in the Review phase and, if the editorial staff has requested, whether it is necessary to make any modifications or revisions to the manuscript:

By clicking on the title of your submission, you will be taken to the workflow of your submission and you will be able to check the information related to the its review. You will find the notifications that the editorial staff has sent you, the attachments that the reviewers may have attached and, if requested, the possibility to provide a new version of the manuscript with the requested modifications by clicking on the "Upload file" button:

Research data policy

We recommend authors depositing data obtained from the research developed for the preparation of their article in repositories of recognized prestige, specific to the discipline or of a generalist nature. In any case, it must be a FAIR repository (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable), preferably in open access.

There are several repositories destined to conserve and disseminate concrete data such as results of surveys, observations, interviews, simulations, automatically collected data, samples, models ... If necessary, authors can consult the Registry of Research Data Repositories re3data taking into account that each repository has its own deposit rules.

Those CSIC authors who would like to deposit their datasets in Digital.CSIC may do so by following these guidelines. They can use the Servicio de Archivo Delegado made available by the Technical Office of DIGITAL.CSIC and the Red de Bibliotecas CSIC.

DIGITAL.CSIC generates DOIs for datasets and associated software and is certified as data repository in re3data and Repository Finder. More information at Política de datos en Digital.CSIC.

If the author has deposited datasets in a repository, he should mention it in the article providing a brief description of the type of data deposited, the name and URL of the repository, the identification code and the data of the license for use and distribution. This information must be included at the end of the article, immediately before the bibliographic listing, under the heading "Data availability".

Download HERE the Good Practice Code in PDF
Download HERE the Authorship Form in PDF